I have the 4gig LAA patch, but skyrim still only uses 2gigs. I don't know if its even using that much. I have Task manager running in the background, and the chart only shows 2gigs being used.

Also, I found a weird glitch. I was messing with my RAM, trying to get it to run at 1866, and I screwed up some timings in windows, and didn't realize it but started skyrim, and fraps read 650 fps. So, when I moved, I was running like 200mph! Time also goes really fast at that speed.

So I ran around and discovered a bunch of stuff I had never seen before, between riverwood, solitude and dawnstar. also markath. Its almost as fast as fast travel. You just have to be careful around cliffs and things. I think my ram wasn't actually doing anything; or maybe all 8gigs were being used, idk.

How do you find out how much system RAM is being used when playing skyrim (apart from ctrl alt deleting out of game...?)

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Start task manager, then click on the 'Performance' tab. It has a chart that keeps track of your last few minutes of CPU and RAM usage. Then fire up Skyrim, and after a couple of minutes Alt+Tab out and look at task manger.

Start task manager, then click on the 'Performance' tab. It has a chart that keeps track of your last few minutes of CPU and RAM usage. Then fire up Skyrim, and after a couple of minutes Alt+Tab out and look at task manger.

tell your friends it makes me happy when its used. Infact this game was the entire reason I made it. I was originally going to make it ONLY for skyrim, but then decided to make it for all programs last min.

Once I run this program I will provide my results. I've been using task manager to get my results up to this point which might not be very accurate due to memory being used for more than just the game.

I can say this much though; before using the LAA patch my memory usage while in game never went over 2gb in fact every time I checked it showed exactly 2gb being used. Then I installed the LAA patch and now every time I look it shows 3.25GB.

what crazyeyes says is true. my program monitors the CPU usage of a process via ALL cores so if it loads one core 100% thats still only 25% of CPU usage on a quad core machine. Shadows are the heavy hitters for the CPU as for ram you have to take into consideration that the game also uses vram which isnt measured.